Re: AW: VirtualBox 4.2.4 freezes PC using RT_PREEMPT kernel

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On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 16:05 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 08:23 +0000, Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESS2) wrote:
> > >  *** DEADLOCK ***
> > 
> > So this is an obvious bug in virtualbox. No need to send us a config.
> > This bug has nothing to do with RT. It's just that RT can expose bugs in
> > mainline (or anything added to mainline) much easier.
> > 
> > Funny thing is, this deadlock isn't even possible in RT, so there's
> > probably many more bugs in the virtualbox driver.
> 
> It's worse on RT, because that's a smp function call interrupt. Which
> just cannot work on RT with the lock not being a raw lock.
>  

Ah, I just figured it was an normal interrupt thread. I was avoiding eye
cancer by not looking at the code. I guess I could have figured it out
with looking at the rest of the lockdep dump, but was too lazy ;-)

-- Steve


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